American Cancer Society Day at Busch #2

This past Sunday was the second ACS day at Busch Stadium.  You can read about the first one here.  This one had the same setup.  Player autographs, ticket to game, free hot dog and soda.  My wife, son, and I arrived around 8:30 again and waited 30 minutes to for gates to open.  The give away was a nice David Freese canvas showing him rounding the bases after the game winning home run in Game 6 of the 2011 World Series.

Unlike the first time, my 15-year-old son did not pass for 16 so we ended up with only 2 of these.  One is already hanging in my office.  On to the autographs.

Matthew Liberatore was my #1 priority.  We waited about 30 minutes in line to get him.

Brad Thompson was at the same table as Liberatore.  I have gotten his auto so many times, that I have about run out of different cards for him to sign.  

Andy Van Slyke was my second priority.  I paid for his autograph a few years ago at Winter Warm Up, so it was nice to add some free cards.  

Giovanny Gallegos was at the same table as Van Slyke.  I had hopes of Knizner signing the bottom card also, but his line was cut off before we could make it there. 

After getting the Van Slyke and Gallegos autographs, we had about 20 minutes left, so we each went to a different table.

My son was able to get Ken Dayley.  He was at a table by himself with a very short line, so he signed 2 cards.

I ended up at Scott Cooper's table.  He only played in St. Louis 1 year but is from the area.

My wife was able to hit the table with Palllante and Simontacchi.  Total of 14 autographs in 1.5 hours for the 3 of us.  Pretty good in my opinion.

As for the game, the Cardinals actually won 7 -3 over the Mets.  Announced attendance was 36,000, but I would guess there might have been 20,000 there.  2 last place teams and temperatures that felt over 100 degrees kept a lot of people away.  This was the hottest game I have ever been to.  Thankfully, our seats were in the shade.  We did move to the bleachers a couple of times in hopes of catching a home run from Masyn Winn.  The metal benches were too hot to sit on so we chose to stand.  Winn did not hit a home run, unfortunately.  We left after the Cardinals scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 7th.  Only missed the Mets scoring a meaningless run.  It was a very hot, but a very fun day.